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Sesquipedalian101 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
A Message in a Passport
I find that the following message is not grammatically perfect. Do you agree?
"This passport contains a chip and antenna embedded in the data page. In addition to the normal care and respect accorded to a passport, BioPass holders are advised to treat the BioPass with due care like any portable electronic device i.e. by ensuring that it does not become wet, bent or mutilated."
My issues are with those phrases that I have underlined:
1. As "chip and antenna" is not a common expression like "bread and butter", "fish and chips" and "bacon and eggs", it should have been "a chip and an antenna". (What do think?)
2. I find "to accord respect" to a passport rather uncanny.
3. The "due care like any portable electronic device" phrase does not sound right but I cannot say why.
4. Personally, I should have written ",i.e.,".
5. The "bent or mutilated" phrase too does not, to my mind, sound grammatical but I cannot say why.
Am I right? I should appreciate your views.
"This passport contains a chip and antenna embedded in the data page. In addition to the normal care and respect accorded to a passport, BioPass holders are advised to treat the BioPass with due care like any portable electronic device i.e. by ensuring that it does not become wet, bent or mutilated."
My issues are with those phrases that I have underlined:
1. As "chip and antenna" is not a common expression like "bread and butter", "fish and chips" and "bacon and eggs", it should have been "a chip and an antenna". (What do think?)
2. I find "to accord respect" to a passport rather uncanny.
3. The "due care like any portable electronic device" phrase does not sound right but I cannot say why.
4. Personally, I should have written ",i.e.,".
5. The "bent or mutilated" phrase too does not, to my mind, sound grammatical but I cannot say why.
Am I right? I should appreciate your views.
Top answer
Selvakumar 1. As "chip and antenna" is not a common expression like "bread and butter", "fish and chips" and "bacon and eggs", it should have been "a chip and an antenna". ) You're right, but I can live with it.
- Selvakumar 1.
- As "chip and antenna" is not a common expression like "bread and butter", "fish and chips" and "bacon and eggs", it should have been "a chip and an antenna".
- ) You're right, but I can live with it.
- It's more an infelicity than a blunder.
- Selvakumar 2.
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Selvakumar1. As "chip and antenna" is not a common expression like "bread and butter", "fish and chips" and "bacon and eggs", it should have been "a chip and an antenna". (What do think?)You're right, but I can live with it. It's more an infelicity than a blunder.
Selvakumar2. I find "to accord respect" to a passport rather uncanny.
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